I hope it doesn't turn out like other substances that accumulate in us (the heavy metals) with no apparent ill effect until toxic levels are attained.
If forced to wager the electricity bill money,however, my hunch is that's the way to bet.
In Water for Elephants, drunks given to jake leg referred to the additive responsible for their loss of locomotion as a plasticizer... The compound was added to the thinly veiled 'medicinal' product as a cloaking chemical for the government's testing process during the Depression. It was later determined to be a flocking nerve agent.
It could be argued the free dissemination of the world's collective knowledge should be widely available to every corner of the green planet.
It's easy to see how much more valuable access to Wiki is to the average dotter (probably not so much for the Facebook-addicted) and every government would have a differing perspective what was good for their citizens.
Entrenched resistance will make this costly venture into the Ukraine more and more expensive just as the falling price of petroleum products hits Putin's budget. They could hold out long enough to make a difference.
l looked up your posting history before replying in case you're normal habit of posting insightfully had been interrupted briefly by a temporary aphasia, and I am disappointed to say your posting history has been found to be a tad lackluster.
If you were attempting to garner positive moderation through razor-thinly veiled, pretentious, intellectual criticism, well... hold on to your day job a bit longer.
Please remember. In the rush to vilify various and sundry sources of energy vis-a-vis environmental impact, that all energy comes at an environmental cost. We will not do without the electricity in our homes and fuel for our human-toters and goodie-transport vehicles.
One day, when the other grid-friendly options are all exploited, our offspring will enjoy ubiquitous clean and relatively safe nuclear power.
You know, maybe, perhaps, and you never know, if you'd been born with the courage to post merely pseudo-anonymously then your racy wit could be judged more hospitably.
We're not politically correct here, to a person, but that's where it's headed.
"everyone" will be translated into something grotesquely governmental like subjects of interest, which will include you if your cousin's niece's hairdresser's brother-in-law took a Middle Eastern Studies freshman course.
Boeing cooperating with the government is like my son cooperating with me and taking out the garbage. I'm his biggest source of income.
Texas Lt Governor Dan Patrick won statewide office prominently supporting a minimum raise increase, and while Governor-elect Greg Abbott has flopped on the issue since he was the Atty. General, I remain convinced that most politicians would say whatever they believed you needed to hear to get your vote.
Given the general sentiment toward cable providers and their malevolent indifference to improve service, I can reasonably see loading a jury with folks predisposed to angst with their own service.
It's too bad this plaintiff will have a difficult time outlasting the cable giant's efforts at playing lawsuit.
That's because both parties want that sweeping power for when *they're* in charge.
Almost certainly. Which begs the question, "How much difference is there, really, between the choices available on election day?"
In retrospect, that security theatre works its magic at airports should in no way surprise us since we've been indulging in political theatre for some time now.
I listened to campaign ads from parts of the country considered liberal, and from regions considered conservative this election season. Assuming the candidates were attempting to address issues important to voters, the topics ran the gamut from job creation to how malevolent the opposition candidate was.
Not once did a political ad obviously endorse curtailing the government's sweeping surveillance powers.
Candidates from elections are prone to endorse whatever view the polls say their constituents are interested in. I'd say this is a poor harbinger of curtailing the powers of the surveillance state.
Oliver is insightful 'round a number of topics dear to/dotters, least of all net neutrality, but twists Fagin on Scottish Independence, private prisons, the death penalty, and even Dr Oz & nutritional supplements.
He's not Carlin, but he's closer than most contemporaries.
Political science, such as it is, is the artful implementation of your belief set into legislation that becomes law of the land.
That there are citizens in your nation representing you who shun science, logic and evidence, well, that is a political problem. And it's all mixed up with getting science elected when we visit the voting booth.
I mean to say the idiots haven't won yet, even though at present they seem to have the lead.
It is said the average human life of 76 produces 1.5 years on the toilet. I'd like to believe I've done some good thinking and improving during that goodly bit of quiet time.
If we can do nothing else productive with our cumulative years on/., we ought to be able to convince folks to type in their own url. Crikey!
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If forced to wager the electricity bill money,however, my hunch is that's the way to bet.
In Water for Elephants, drunks given to jake leg referred to the additive responsible for their loss of locomotion as a plasticizer... The compound was added to the thinly veiled 'medicinal' product as a cloaking chemical for the government's testing process during the Depression. It was later determined to be a flocking nerve agent.
Without you tech snobs, they'd simply never recoup R & D expenses.
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It's easy to see how much more valuable access to Wiki is to the average dotter (probably not so much for the Facebook-addicted) and every government would have a differing perspective what was good for their citizens.
Entrenched resistance will make this costly venture into the Ukraine more and more expensive just as the falling price of petroleum products hits Putin's budget. They could hold out long enough to make a difference.
Make them care enough to do the lengthy, tiresome coupon verification process instead of getting to the next anxious customer in line? Best of luck.
But I've been accused of worse.
If you were attempting to garner positive moderation through razor-thinly veiled, pretentious, intellectual criticism, well... hold on to your day job a bit longer.
Please remember. In the rush to vilify various and sundry sources of energy vis-a-vis environmental impact, that all energy comes at an environmental cost. We will not do without the electricity in our homes and fuel for our human-toters and goodie-transport vehicles.
One day, when the other grid-friendly options are all exploited, our offspring will enjoy ubiquitous clean and relatively safe nuclear power.
There is no side of the energy industry that doesn't get subsidies, least of all the presently successful variety.
It, like dark matter, are constantly asking us to take things on faith...
We're not politically correct here, to a person, but that's where it's headed.
Good thing this is /., where everyone has a good grasp of reason.
Boeing cooperating with the government is like my son cooperating with me and taking out the garbage. I'm his biggest source of income.
It exists, but it's widely wrong. Considerably more wrong than geolocation unless you happen to speak US English.
Damn the good luck.
Get the votes now, ask for forgiveness later.
It's too bad this plaintiff will have a difficult time outlasting the cable giant's efforts at playing lawsuit.
That's because both parties want that sweeping power for when *they're* in charge.
Almost certainly. Which begs the question, "How much difference is there, really, between the choices available on election day?"
In retrospect, that security theatre works its magic at airports should in no way surprise us since we've been indulging in political theatre for some time now.
Not once did a political ad obviously endorse curtailing the government's sweeping surveillance powers.
Candidates from elections are prone to endorse whatever view the polls say their constituents are interested in. I'd say this is a poor harbinger of curtailing the powers of the surveillance state.
Oliver is insightful 'round a number of topics dear to /dotters, least of all net neutrality, but twists Fagin on Scottish Independence, private prisons, the death penalty, and even Dr Oz & nutritional supplements.
He's not Carlin, but he's closer than most contemporaries.
That there are citizens in your nation representing you who shun science, logic and evidence, well, that is a political problem. And it's all mixed up with getting science elected when we visit the voting booth.
I mean to say the idiots haven't won yet, even though at present they seem to have the lead.
Maybe, but dropping his rather formidable name into a venture produces instant positive reception.
and the public outcry would break the decibel record set at a college football game.
Dream big, right?
Did your credit union send the letters, or did Home Depot?
Home Depot isn't paying for your card, and a letter isn't that expensive when you are buying office supplies in bulk.
For a corporation with $78 Billion in revenue, $62 million is like you paying the paperboy his Christmas bonus.
It is said the average human life of 76 produces 1.5 years on the toilet. I'd like to believe I've done some good thinking and improving during that goodly bit of quiet time.
If we can do nothing else productive with our cumulative years on /., we ought to be able to convince folks to type in their own url. Crikey!